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"Good Keep your eyes open The watch is yours"

With firathered her skirts and petticoats, lifting them to her waist He found the slit in her drawers and widened it with a loud rent of fabric, baring her delicate flesh to the cooling breeze and his warh touch

He petted her, parted her, spread her wide to his view His fingertips traced every contour of her intimate flesh She’d never felt so exposed If she’d paused to think too hard about what he was seeing and doing, Susanna would have lost her nerve altogether So she did as he said She kept the watch, training her eyes on the sparkling blue water and the silver-kissed horizon

Athe closures of his breeches She grew restless with need, damp with anticipation A little cry of relief escaped her when his hot, aroused length sprang up to lodge snug against her cleft

His hands caressed her bared bottoine how much I think of this All the time, everywhere Yesterday, I stopped in the shop for ink, and all I could think of was you, spreading your legs for me on the countertop Or bent over the display case Then slaainst the storeroo propped on a crate Every wakingfor it" He worked his hard, thick shaft against her, sliding back and forth over her sensitized flesh "Tell led her hips, increasingly desperate for him

"Tell me, love I need to hear it I need to know this madness isn’t mine alone"

"I" She sed "I want you" Excite those syllables pushed her to a neanton degree of arousal The ed her opening with the smooth, blunt crown of his erection "In you, hard and deep Isn’t that right?"

Those wordsso indecent So crude So utterly arousing

"Y-yes"

He licked her ear "Did you say so?"

Decency be da "Yes," she said "I want it All of it In liding stroke Stretching her Filling her Then retreating for a brief, agonizing pause before thrusting deeper still

He set a rhythainst the ancient parapet, and as they ether, he lavished kisses over her bared neck and shoulders The tight knots of her nipples chafed against her corset seah every inch of her body

He slid one hand around her hips, sifting through the folds of petticoat His talented fingers knew just how to please her, circling gently over that needy bud as he kept up his strong, steady thrusts

"Brahtened around her middle His pace did not relent "I have you"

She stared, eyes wide and unfocused, at that thin, indigo line of horizon And then he pushed her beyond it Flinging her off the ined bliss It went on, and on She rode the crest of pleasure as far as it would take her Startled sounds of pleasure pushed froulls She was helpless to stop theht to his, burying his full length inside her Her intimate muscles clamped around his thickness Theyheartbeats’ pause, he began to ain

He was close to his peak She could sense it in the acceleration of his rhythuttural noises of satisfaction If he wasn’t careful

"Bram Take care"

"I don’t want to take care" He bent close, breathing in her ear "I want to take you Mark you Spend inside you, and feel you holding ht while I fill you with my seed I want the world to know you’re htened and aroused her She opened her mouth to object, to plead with him Take care, take care Take care with s But then he shifted, thrusting deeper still, and his thurazed her flesh just where she needed it Pleasure racked her body for a second time, and the only sounds from her mouth were primal, desperate moans

She hadn’t known, hadn’t dreamed she could feel so exposed With each one of these hasty, stolen couplings, he stripped yet more layers from the woman she’d always believed herself to be He denuded her of witty banter, of polite virtue, of all the trappings of a gently bred, overly educated spinster Reducing her to nothing but raild sensation and a fiercely thuuarded heart

While the last pulses of her clih her, he withdrew froainst her thigh In the after sweet kisses to her teed huffs He pressed his brow to her shoulder and gathered her close "That getsdown her petticoats, she slid free When she had her clothing rearranged, she slowly turned to face him The words stuck in her throat, but she forced them out "Perhaps this time should be the last"

"Susanna You know I didn’ttangled about his knees With ihten the falls and fasten the buttons

She srasped her wrist, forbidding her to leave "What do you mean? You can’taway You’re the one who’s leaving And we can’t keep doing this We’re going to be caught"

"So what if we are caught?" he said "You know I plan to marry you I’d marry you tomorrow"

"Yes And then you’d leave me a few days after that"